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Churches, 1886

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Church of Scotland

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 April 1886 · page 11

LONDON, March 31.—In the House of Commons last night, the motion brought forward by Dr, C. Cameron, of Glasgow, having, for its object the disestablishment of the Church of…

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Pictures in Churches. St. Mark's

Globe · Monday 5 April 1886 · page 5

Ten thousand pictures without the churches, at such a sunset as yesterday's. Clouds becalmed on the sky, sails flapping on the sea, great blue hills in the…

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The Church in France

Evening News · Monday 5 April 1886 · page 5

LONDON, April 3.—Cardinal Guibert, Archbishop of Paris, has made an appeal to M. Jules Grevy, President of the French Republic, urging the Republic to refrain from harassing religion…

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The Duty of the Australian Churches. Lecture by the Rev. Dr. Gilchrist

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 April 1886 · page 5

Yesterday evening the Rev. Dr. Gilchrist delivered a sermon at St. John's Church, Paddington, on the French annexation of the New Hebrides and the duty of the Australian Churches in relation to the question. Taking for…

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New Church - School at Rookwood Speech by Cardinal Moran

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 April 1886 · page 6

Cardinal Moran yesterday afternoon laid the corner-stone of the new Roman Catholic church- school at Rookwood. The ceremony, which took place at four o'clock, was witnessed by a…

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The Cape Bedford Mission. Cooktown, This Day

Globe · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 8

The aboriginal mission to Cape Bedford is a great success so far. Some forty aboriginals have settled there, and work willingly at clearing land. The…

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The Missing Bank Manager. His Arrest in Brisbane. Taken in the Garb of a Catholic Priest

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 5

Inquiries instituted yesterday with respect to the statements in The Daily Telegraph from Maryborough, announcing that Holt had been recognised on board a steamer there…

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Presbyterian Church Majority Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1886 · page 4

A large and influential meeting was held is the Y.M.C.A. rooms last night, to inaugurate the movement for raising £50,000 to commemorate the majority of the Presbyterian…

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Rookwood. Roman Catholic School Church

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1886 · page 3

THE corner-stone of the Roman Catholic school church at Rookwood was laid and solemnly [?] by Cardinal [?] on Sunday afternoon last in the presence of a large number…

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Presbyterian Majority Fund. Inaugural Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1886 · page 9

A very largely attended public meeting was held yesterday evening in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association, the object being to inaugurate a Majority Fund of £50,000 in celebration of the majority of the union…

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Woollahra Congregational Church. Extinction of the Debt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1886 · page 9

A social meeting was held in the Congregational Church, Point Piper-road, Woollahra, yesterday evening, for the purpose of celebrating the extinction of the debt on the new church. The meeting, which was held in the old…

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Sydney Pulpits. Viii. Roman Catholicism.—st Patrick's Church

Evening News · Thursday 8 April 1886 · page 8

Perhaps no passage in Macaulay is more often quoted and misquoted than that in his review of Bank's History, where he says, speaking of the durability of the Church of Rome, that "she may…

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The Scots Church Dispute

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1886 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- At a meeting of the Melbourne Presbytery to-day, the Rev. Geo. Dods, who had been summoned to deliver up the manuscript of sermons preached…

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Anglican Confession

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 3

Auricular Confession is the modern invention of a corrupt priesthood, dating only from 1215. The following official teaching of the…

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Roman Catholic

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 14

THE separation of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Granville, from the district of Parramatta, has necessitated the appointment of a resident clergyman, and the Rev. Father…

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Presbyterian Majority Fund

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 748

A VERY numerously attended public meeting was held in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association building on Tuesday evening, with the object of instituting a Majority Fund of £50,000 in connection…

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Edith O'gorman's Mission

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 8

We would request the officers of the different Orange lodges in the suburbs to see whether they cannot make arrangements for obtaining lectures by the Escaped Nun in…

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Germany. Abolition of the Infamous May Laws. Triumph Op the Catholic Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 7

A bill has been laid before the Upper House of the Prussian Parliament to mitigate the oppressive laws against the Catholic Church, which are known as the May Laws. By these laws…

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Catholic. the Cathedral Building Fund Meeting

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 14

THE first of the new quarterly meetings was held in the cathedral after evening service on Sunday last. The Cardinal-Archbishop presided, and the group…

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The Earl of Bantry and His Catholic Wife

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 6

It is stated (says UNITED IRELAND, Feb. 27), that the Earl of Bentry was married lost week in Rome to Miss Petre, a cousin of the present Lord Petre's. The lady is a Catholic, and it is…

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